Risk Management Process

CHRISTOPHER L. CULP is Managing Director at CP Risk Management LLC in Chicago and is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago. A former president of Risk Management Consulting Services, Inc. and senior examiner in the Supervision and Regulation Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Dr. Culp is a managing editor of Derivatives Quarterly and Senior Fellow in Financial Regulation with the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Dr. Culp holds a PhD in finance from the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago and a BA in economics from Johns Hopkins University.

• Introduction. RISK MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE FINANCE. The Nature of Risk. Risk Aversion, Insurance, and Hedging. The Irrelevance of Corporate Financing and Risk Management Decisions. Increasing Expected Cash Flows or Reducing the Cost of Capital by Managing Risk. Reducing Conflicts between Security Holders and Managers by Managing Risk. Reducing Conflicts amongst Security Holders by Managing Risk. Controlling and Exploiting Informational Asymmetries by Managing Risk. Value versus Cash Flow versus Earnings Risk Management. Total versus Selective Risk Management. RISK MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS STRATEGY. Risk Culture and Risk Management Business Models. Integrating People, Technology, and Processes through Enterprise-Wide Risk Management. Identifying Market Risk Exposures and Defining Risk Tolerances. Spot, Forward, and Forward-Like Exposures. Identifying Option, Option-Like, and Real Option Exposures. Measuring and Monitoring Market Risk. Identifying, Measuring, and Monitoring Credit Risk. Identifying, Measuring, and Monitoring Liquidity Risk. Identifying, Measuring, and Monitoring Operational Risk. Identifying and Managing Legal Risk. THE TACTICS OF RISK CONTROL. Ex Ante Capital Allocation. Ex Post Performance Measurement and Compensation. Internal Controls. Tactical Risk Control with Derivatives. Tactical Risk Control through Actual and Synthetic Asset Divestitures. Strategic Risk Control with Structured Liabilities. Insurance and ART. Notes. Bibliography. Index.